I don’t know when the Chinese started to refer to anger as “anger” and have been using this term since I was a child. After learning Chinese medicine, I realized that when people get angry, they really produce “qi” in their bodies. Not only people get angry, most animals get angry, and after animals get angry, the next thing they do is fight. The body uses anger to adjust its endocrine system so that the body is in the best condition for fighting. When a country faces the threat of war, it immediately prepares for war and invests a lot of resources in the preparation for war. Once the threat of war disappears, most of these invested resources become waste. Just as the former Soviet Union had to go to great lengths to destroy various intercontinental missiles and tanks after its collapse. Animals get angry in the same way that nations prepare for war, and the body puts many of its resources into adjustment to get the body’s configuration into a state of readiness for battle, ready for the battle that follows. Once the condition disappears, these adjusted resources become waste and must be expelled from the body. Thus, anger, like a national war, consumes a lot of resources and is very wasteful of the body’s blood and energy. The Huangdi Nei Jing – Ling Shu has a paragraph explaining the causes of disease: “The beginning of all diseases must be caused by dryness, dampness, cold, summer, wind, rain, yin and yang, happiness and anger, diet and living”. It is not only a waste of the body’s blood energy, but also a very important cause of various diseases. As with most diseases, prolonged anger leaves its mark on the human body. From the outside, it appears that most people who are in a constant state of anger and have a prolonged firestorm will suffer from baldness. In severe cases, the shape of the top of the head may change, with the midline of the head arching up to form a spiky head shape. If the degree of anger is lighter, a double-tipped M-shaped baldness will be formed on both sides of the forehead, and such people must be impatient. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, when you lose your temper, the Qi will rush upward, straight to the top of your head, so it will cause the top of your head to heat up, and over time, baldness will form. Severe anger can sometimes cause bleeding in the liver, and in more serious cases there may be vomiting of blood from the liver, and in less severe cases, the bleeding stays in the liver and forms a hematoma over time. These sound terrible, but they are true. The so-called anger does not only refer to the temper issued, some smothered in the heart of the anger can also cause harm to the human body. Stifled anger can cause stagnation of Qi in the chest and abdominal cavity, which is called “cross-reverse” in Chinese medicine. Lobular hyperplasia and breast cancer in women are likely to be the result of boredom. The other kind of qi is the “wimp” qi that has nowhere to go. This kind of person is very well cultivated on the outside, as if he never loses his temper, but in fact, he is often in a state of anger or anxiety in his heart. This kind of person is very easy to form cross-reverse qi stagnation, resulting in duodenal ulcers or gastric ulcers, serious will cause stomach bleeding. The forehead of such a person is particularly high, that is, the forehead is semi-circular above the front baldness, is the biggest feature. People with poorer blood energy will sink downward, forming abdominal distention and pain, often thinking it is a problem with the stomach and intestines, but in fact it is simply caused by anger. From the five elements theory of Chinese medicine, it is believed that liver is wood, spleen is earth, and wood grinds earth. If the liver is too strong, the spleen will follow, and if the blood is very strong in young people, many white blood cells will be produced to deal with gastrointestinal problems, it is likely that the real cause of some young leukemia patients is simply from anger. Anger can cause liver heat, and the opposite of liver heat can make a person very angry. From the TCM point of view, anger hurts the liver, and liver injury makes it easier to get angry, and the two can create a vicious cycle by acting as cause and effect. When the body overdraws its energy for a long time, the blood energy drops to the level of Yin deficiency and fire, because the energy used by the body at this time is overdrawn “fire”, the liver must be hotter and the liver fire is more vigorous, so people are easily angry. Therefore, nourishing the blood energy so that it rises beyond the level of yin deficiency will also make one’s temper more peaceful. Anger also causes liver heat, which in turn causes the lungs to follow suit, and this can cause severe insomnia. We once met a person who could not sleep for five days and nights because of anger. In the hospital, when a patient is weak, sometimes anger can be life-threatening. For example, a patient with a lot of phlegm can get angry and the phlegm will come up, causing severe shortness of breath and death by suffocation if he is not careful. Since anger can cause many problems in the body, the first thing you should do in your daily maintenance is to “not get angry”. The so-called “no anger” does not mean that you should not be angry, but rather that you should cultivate your body and mind, open your heart and soul, or seek a religious belief so that you can have a broader mind to tolerate the faults of others when you are not happy in life, and have no thoughts of anger at all. If the circumstances of life or work make it impossible not to be angry, then the only way is to change the circumstances. Anger is caused by a person’s internal factors, and even the best doctor cannot prevent the patient from getting angry, so the only way to overcome this problem is for the patient to cultivate himself. The doctor can only try to minimize the damage caused by anger after the patient has become angry. This is done by massaging or using acupuncture on the liver meridian. The simplest way is to massage the Tai Chong point on the back of the foot (in the depression behind the first and second metatarsophalangeal joints on the back of the foot) immediately after getting angry, so that the rising liver energy can be drained downward. You can also find an acupuncturist on the day of your anger and stick needles in the Tai Chong point and keep them for thirty minutes, and then again every two days until the point is no longer painful and the top of your head is not hot. It is also helpful to eat foods that can relieve liver qi, such as Chen Pi and yam. The simplest way to eliminate Qi is to soak your feet in hot water, with the water temperature controlled at about 40-42 degrees Celsius, and the time spent soaking varies from person to person, preferably until your shoulders sweat (at room temperature of 25-28 degrees Celsius), some people need half an hour, and people with low blood energy sometimes need to soak for two hours. If a hematoma is left in the liver due to anger, it will take a long time to maintain and the body will only begin to deal with this when the blood energy is very high. Some of our friends understand that anger can have such serious consequences that they never dare to get angry again. The essence of anger is that “punishing oneself for the faults of others” is one of the most foolish human actions. People who die because of anger, which the Chinese call “qi” people, are in fact also really “stupid” people who die. With the current medical diagnosis, it is difficult to define a patient’s illness as being caused by anger, but perhaps one day, this will be possible and people will discover that anger is probably one of the leading causes of death.